Morgue Space News Today

In the central part of the state run out of morgue space. our victor oquendo is in miami. >> baptist hospital is one of the largest in miami, and over the course of the last two weeks, theyve seen more covid patients than at any point in the pandemic. they had to set up these two large tents right outside the emergency depatment to make room for everyone. and inside the lobby, its now lined with beds. >> reporter: and can covid cases surging, federal health officials are once again sounding the ...

Tonight. >> reporter: tonight, outside one hospital in brooklyn, a somber walk. a team of doctors moving a covid victim to a mobile morgue. an increasingly familiar sight in this stricken city. morgue space is filling up. this grim picture outside bellevue hospital. about a dozen of these refrigerator trucks lined up to hold the dead. overnight, the death toll in new york state jumping to nearly 3,000. >> highest single increase in the number of deaths since we started. >> reporter: funeral home...

Have tried to ratchet this back. the awareness is growing. walgreens told us theyre not going to comment on pending litigation. >> what is their explanation for how they didnt notice that many millions of pills were being prescribed in a town with 3,000 people? >> their focus right now is how they are trying to fix this now. but what the state is saying is this went on for a very long time. they go all the way back to 1999 and show these huge numbers of opioids. you know, the problem in florida ...